Soul-Warming White Bean & Kale Soup

As winter continues on in the Pacific Northwest, I wanted to share with you one of my favorite comfort SOUPS–weird term, isn’t it? This is one of the only ways I can get Ktams to willingly eat mushroom and kale together 😛

Method

Heat up a large pot on the stove, and add in a couple tablespoons of broth. Throw in your sliced sausage and cook until browned, 8-10 minutes. Next, add the chopped onion, as well as a healthy bit of chili flakes, salt and pepper. Feel free to continue to add broth to the pot to keep the onions from sticking as they cook. Cook until the onions are translucent–approximately 10 minutes.

While your onions are cooking, clean your beans and place them in a bowl. Collect about 1/3 of your beans into a blender with a few more tablespoons of broth and blend until smooth. This trick will make your soup broth milkier in consistency and add additional lovely flavor notes.

Once your onions are cooked, add in the rest of the broth and bring to a boil, making sure to scrape at the pan to remove any burned on bits. Add in the kale, bring down to a simmer and cover–cook for about 5 minutes or until the kale is wilted to your liking. Once there, toss in whats left of your bean bowl and the mushrooms and stir. Test for flavor and heat until the beans are cooked through–perhaps 5 minutes more. Serve hot! (Serves 4).

4 days agoby TheSpicyBeeLet’s pause for a moment as I would like to call out my main squeeze Ktams for really going above and beyond recently. *** A few weeks ago our fridge bit the big one at the young age of 4 yrs old. Distraught, we salvaged what we could from the fridge and began the stress inducing process of deciding whether we spend the money on a repair person coming out (that we had deduced would cost nearly as much as replacing the fridge) or coming up with about 1.5K to replace it. He came up with an option C which